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Goddess and Princess. I do art and writing and coding. I probably don't do nearly enough of anything.


A concept I still like. As you can see by the date, this just barely predates Dread's release, so it doesn't quite mesh with canon, but I'd like to think it's still a possible future. Includes a story.


After the BSL incident and the events on the planet ZDR, certain powerful factions within the Galactic Federation were beginning to lose any good will they held toward Samus Aran. Unfortunately for them, there was no way they could get rid of her, discretely or otherwise. Even if trumped-up or falsified charges were filed against her, even if the public opinion could be convinced to turn its back on her, even if a sufficiently-skilled and fortunate assassin were capable of eliminating her.

The fact remained that Samus was among the most powerful and feared entities known in existence; she was certainly the only one among such forces who would ever act in defense of the Federation and its people. But Samus had also made it clear she would go out of her way to destroy any of the Federation's efforts to utilize Metroids or the X parasite as bioweapons.

An extremely uneasy compromise was eventually reached. Using the vaccine administered to Samus herself after her initial encounter with the X as a proof of concept, Federation scientists developed and perfected a method for augmenting soldiers with Metroid DNA.

Samus loathed the idea. It made her skin crawl. But she conceded that there was no real danger in either the process or the results, and that there was no ethical, moral, or legal reason for her to keep informed volunteers from undergoing augmentation.

She had hoped-- perhaps out of desperation, certainly out of exhaustion-- that that would be the end of her conflict with the Federation.

A few years passed. The Special-force Units of Metroid-Augmented Soldiers was a resounding success both as members of exploration and investigatory teams and as enforcement officers. Despite this, whispers of conspiracy surrounding the program began to spread--some moreso than others and all of them disturbing. Stories concerning missing women and children, of the poor and the homeless disappearing in Federation science facilities, of fetal injections, breeding programs, and child soldiers.

They were impossible to prove, circumstantially or otherwise, no matter who investigated the stories. Samus kept an ear out for any new information by various means, including via a number of independent parties she trusted, but had no leads. Until one day, one of her contacts sent her an intercepted message on a rogue signal.

The message's quality was poor, but two things were very clear. First, the sender's image was a youthful individual with red eyes and anomalous patches of glowing green skin; second, audio was that of a likewise young-sounding voice, pleading that anyone that could hear the message to please save them.

It was all the information Samus needed to make her move. She traced the signal and followed every tangled hint of where the captives were moved, eventually finding her target: a massive research and development Federation starship, large and well-equipped enough to be a miniature colony. What she discovered onboard and within the ship's records was forever burned into her memory. Hundreds of children and adults of all kinds, bunkered and corralled like some twisted mix of livestock and indentured soldiers-in-training, some drugged into complacency or battle rage.

Before any backup forces could arrive, Samus seized control of the starship, ejected officers and scientists that were onboard and smart enough to not fight her, and released the imprisoned Metroid hybrids from their shackles. As she piloted the ship to a planet--untouched save by the Chozo that had settled there until some time ago-- Samus sent one final message to the Galactic Federation. She vowed that if there were any other such captive genetically-engineered soldiers out there, now or in the years to come, she WOULD find out and there would be no rest for anyone that attempted it again.

Centuries passed. The Metroid hybrids of Neo Zebes have constructed and established a civilization in the likeness of the Chozo that lived there before. It is a peaceful planet in an otherwise-uninhabited corner of the galaxy, a safe haven for anyone that seeks it.

The Metroidian people are led, protected by, and taught by their beloved Matriarch, Samus Aran. Her lifespan was dramatically extended beyond her once-human limits thanks to the DNA infused within her; as her human biology slowed with age, her Metroid and Chozo genetics picked up the slack, eventually resulting in her body adopting traits of both. It has been a long, long time since she last went offworld to defend those that need it or obliterate emerging evils, but she continues to teach her adoptive homeworld's messages of peace and justice, ideals that her successors take to heart.

Historians are undecided if there was anyone else within the Galactic Federation that attempted to revive any of the ill-fated bioweapons programs, but it is agreed that something must have happened to spark tales of the Metroidian Queen's legendary wrath...


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